Today, NASA announced that it is putting together an independent team of researchers this fall to study sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, the updated term now used to refer to UFOs. The space agency says it plans to study these sightings from a scientific perspective but also stressed that “there is no evidence UAPs are extra-terrestrial in origin.”

The proceedings begin at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).

1,500 pages of UFO related research were just declassified as part of a FOIA request.

A response to a FOIA request has revealed the Library is setting on a possible treasure trove of documents about UFOs.

VICE World News obtained nearly 300 pages of documents through freedom of information requests that include strange sightings from pilots, soldiers, and police officers.

Interest in UFOs continues to grow, both among scientists and government officials.

The U.S. government hasn't comprehensively studied UFOs in decades — but not all ufologists are excited about a new Pentagon investigative office.

The nine-page preliminary US government report released last June is only supplemented by an additional eight classified pages according to a report by The Black Vault

The U.S. government released its highly-anticipated report UFO report and was met with what can only be described as a lackluster response.

Some members of Congress were given advanced details about Pentagon report, which is scheduled to be released before 25 June

The strange objects witnessed by Navy pilots remain unexplained, but officials briefed on a new study say they are not secret technology from a classified American program.

It seems safe to say that Chris Hadfield probably doesn't have one of those X-Files "I want to believe" UFO posters on any of his walls. On Sunday the Canadian astronaut, who commanded the International Space Station and recorded the famous microgravity rendition of David Bowie's Space Oddity, spit some fire at true believers who see a link between UFOs or UAPs (for "unidentified aerial phenomena" in the newish military parlance) and some sort of alien intelligence.

ABC News contributor Steve Ganyard and Lue Elizondo, former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, discuss an upcoming Pentagon report on "unidentified aerial phenomena."

For years, the US government largely ignored reports of mysterious flying objects seen moving through restricted military airspace but it is now slowly beginning to acknowledge that UFOs, which the Pentagon refers to as unidentified aerial phenomena, are real.

Cmdr. Dave Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich were training with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group when a UAP encounter occurred over the Pacific Ocean.

As part of the newly passed COVID-19 relief legislation, lawmakers are demanding answers from U.S. intelligence agencies and the Defense Department on the potential existence of UFOs and other unidentified aerial phenomena.

The move comes days after Japan and the United States spoke about unidentified aerial phenomena.

Among the 5,000 sightings recorded this year, 20 percent of them occurred in April – the height of the COVID-19 crisis and lockdown, according to the news outlet.

For nearly 30 years, John Shepherd broadcast freewheeling records from all over the world, to what he hoped would be an interstellar audience.

"The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified,'" a spokeswoman said.